Abstract
This study was motivated by the incomprehension of some elementary school teachers about topic learning and how to teach the topic learning of speaking skill in elementary school students. This study aims to evaluate speaking skill of elementary school students through the development of speaking skill instruments and analyzed in Rasch model. The study employed descriptive analysis with a cross-sectional design. The participants of the study were the students of a State Elementary School in Indonesia consisting of 43 students of grade VI at Layungsari Elementary School and 47 students of grade VI at Balandongan elementary school. The results of the analysis show that the construct of the instrument used measures one variable, namely is speaking skill of elementary school students and from 90 participants, 14 people (15.5%) are included in the high ability category, the category there are 63 moderate abilities (70%), and 13 (14.4%) low ability categories.
Highlights
Humans are social creatures that can not be separated into individual communications with other, communication activities often carried out through talking so every individual must have speaking skill to be able to express thoughts, feelings ably
Even though elementary school students are still at an early age, children as social beings must be willing to assist, assistance can be in the form of assistance to their families, groups of friends even to people they do not know
This study uses the development of speaking skill are tested instruments to students through self-assessment The participants of the study were the students of a State Elementary School in Indonesia consisting of 43 students of grade VI at Layungsari Elementary School and 47 students of grade VI at Balandongan elementary school
Summary
Humans are social creatures that can not be separated into individual communications with other, communication activities often carried out through talking so every individual must have speaking skill to be able to express thoughts, feelings ably. Even if he is instructed to speak in class they are still shy They are only able to talk with close friends only, or with people who have become accustomed he/she spoke [2]. Inability to speak in public and formal situation was experienced by adults such as teachers, preachers, and speakers who are not yet skilled in speaking well, such as preachers and teachers are still causing disinterest for listener and does not understand message delivered while the goal of learning to speak in schools; students can communicate in various situations using spoken language properly in conveying thoughts, opinions, feelings, experiences so that they can interact socially with the community [4]
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